Before we proceed with the unfolding, let's plot the "standard" band structure of a supercell. We will be looking for signatures of the zone folding. In order to do this you will need the following scripts:

energy_eig-abinit.sh; andplot_band.m

Execute the energy_eig-avinit.sh script

Edit plot_band.m file and point to the newly created tfold2bloch_1o_DS2_EIG.dat file.

Then, run the plot_band.m script in MatLab

>>plot_band

This will plot the band structure of the 6 atom Hydrogen supercell created.

Lastly, compare the image obtained to the band structure image below.

Fig. 3: 6 atom hydrogen supercell band structure plot

Here you can see that the band structure does not look like a cosine function along directions Y-Gamma and Z-Gamma. The band structure is folded according to the multiplicity along those directions used when constructing the supercell (Fig. 1b).
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Next step is to execute fold2Bloch using the wave function file from the 2nd dataset, and multiplicity in the corresponding directions, used when constructing the super-cell (x:y:z), included as part of the command line arguments. For this example the multiplicity used was (1:2:3)

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